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Goatseye on 27 May 2013

So where did they say they're not gonna implement it? All I read was corporate fallacies.



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SnakeEyez on 27 May 2013
kowenicki said:

By the way... it is interesting that the Sony fans feel it necessary to petition for this.

It seems incongruous with all the comments I keep hearing about Sony loving gamers and how "they'd never do this"


Better safe than sorry I always say. It's better to petition against it before it happens than to complain when it does.



RenCutypoison on 27 May 2013
SnakeEyez said:
kowenicki said:

By the way... it is interesting that the Sony fans feel it necessary to petition for this.

It seems incongruous with all the comments I keep hearing about Sony loving gamers and how "they'd never do this"


Better safe than sorry I always say. It's better to petition against it before it happens than to complain when it does.


Where did you see a petition ? We are just showing our support to the playstation brand and using weird hashtags and acronyms >>



SnakeEyez on 27 May 2013
RenCutypoison said:
SnakeEyez said:
kowenicki said:

By the way... it is interesting that the Sony fans feel it necessary to petition for this.

It seems incongruous with all the comments I keep hearing about Sony loving gamers and how "they'd never do this"


Better safe than sorry I always say. It's better to petition against it before it happens than to complain when it does.


Where did you see a petition ? We are just showing our support to the playstation brand and using weird hashtags and acronyms >>


His words, not mine.



Goatseye on 27 May 2013

" It's a publisher decision. We are not talking about it. Sorry.- Sony president of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida"

http://au.gamespot.com/news/yoshida-talks-all-things-playstation-4-6404291



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Talal on 27 May 2013

I really hope this can make a difference. I'd think that if there was some sort of deal with certain 3rd party publishers, it would be very difficult to back out of this. I feel like if it was only certain 3rd parties that did that on the PS4 I wouldn't mind it as much. At least in that case I could direct my anger towards those 3rd parties only. :p



osed125 on 27 May 2013

Like someone already mentioned, we gamers are a few vocal minority. If Sony does indeed has plans to implement some sort of DRM (and they see the benefit in it) the amount of tweets needs to be HUGE, and I mean that it needs to be disgustingly huge (millions and millions unique tweets), for Sony to ditch out this completely.

That's without taking into consideration that some people that are doing this tweets are going to get the PS4 anyway, with or without DRM. There are millions of millions of potential customers that don't even know what DRM is (the "casual" market if you will), those are the ones that bring the money to the table. 

I would like the tweets change Sony's vision, but I won't get my hopes up.



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michael_stutzer on 27 May 2013
pezus said:
michael_stutzer said:
Osc89 said:
By the way, Xbox fans? You can learn from this. Instead of whitewashing everything Microsoft is doing with the XB1, campaign against it like the Sony fans here.

It seems they are perfectly happy with it and they label people who oppose this as trolls. A while ago I suggested that Microsoft should increase the fee of Xbox Live since everyone is happy paying for online multiplayer, an extra 25$ wouldn't hurt anyone. They found a better way.

An extra $25 is only 7 cents per day. That is peanuts!

The price of 5 coffees in a year.



bigd615 on 27 May 2013
Skeeuk said:
i predict sony will indeed use DRM in its console which would be a shame, will be even worse if its always-on

Shuhei Yoshida confirmed the console doesn't have to be online at all to work. What that means towards drm, I'm not sure. Can games be locked without having to be online at all? 



Scoobes on 27 May 2013
Goatseye said:
So where did they say they're not gonna implement it? All I read was corporate fallacies.

As they're only employees they can't outright say anything useful until the company makes a full announcement on the issue. Doing otherwise and you get the confusing mixed messages that occured after the Xbone reveal.

With all this going on I imagine fierce debate behind closed doors between employees, execs and third party publishers. We'll likely find out their final position at E3.




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